VA SB616 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation and its powers and duties and reporting requirements, the Virginia Farm Link Program, the Century Farm Program, and the Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund. The bill renames the Office as the Office of Working Lands Preservation. The bill makes technical amendments to effectuate the transfer and requires the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Department of Forestry by July 1 of each year certain enumerated information about nonpoint source nutrient credits certified in the previous year that involve land use conversion.
Title
Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-08 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) | |
| 2024-03-08 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 7/1/24) | |
| 2024-03-01 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-01 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 |
| 2024-02-24 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-02-21 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB616ER) |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2024-02-19 | House | VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Read third time |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-02-14 | House | Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate as amended SB616E |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Finance and Appropriations Committee amendments agreed to |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Reading of amendments waived |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendments agreed to |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Reading of amendments waived |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2024-02-01 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-31 | Senate | Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-23 | Senate | Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations |
| 2024-01-23 | Senate | Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-10 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| 2024-01-10 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D |
Same As/Similar To
HB892 (Similar To) 2024-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146)
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | 1105.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 10 | 1 | 1119.2 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 10 | 1 | 1119.7 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 2 | 2 | 1509.4 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 3 | 2 | 102 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 3 | 2 | 200 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 3 | 2 | 205 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 46 | 2 | 749.102 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 58 | 1 | 512 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
